NVIDIA GeForce 825M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 825M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 825M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
  • 11.1x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 365 Watt
  • Around 5% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1707 MHz
  • Around 23% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 15796 vs 12811
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 27 January 2014 vs 24 March 2011
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt vs 365 Watt
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz vs 1707 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL 15796 vs 12811

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

  • Around 43% higher core clock speed: 1215 MHz vs 850 MHz
  • 2.6x more texture fill rate: 77.7 billion / sec vs 30.11 GTexel / s
  • 2.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 384
  • 3.4x better floating-point performance: 2x 1,244.2 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
  • 3x more maximum memory size: 3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU) vs 1 GB
  • 4.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3341 vs 782
  • Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 394 vs 247
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1215 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate 77.7 billion / sec vs 30.11 GTexel / s
Pipelines 1024 vs 384
Floating-point performance 2x 1,244.2 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
Maximum memory size 3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU) vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 3341 vs 782
PassMark - G2D Mark 394 vs 247

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 825M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
782
3341
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
247
394
Geekbench - OpenCL
GPU 1
GPU 2
15796
12811
Name NVIDIA GeForce 825M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
PassMark - G3D Mark 782 3341
PassMark - G2D Mark 247 394
Geekbench - OpenCL 15796 12811
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 30.921
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 1116.126
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 3.799
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 49.114
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 107.239
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 4118
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3330
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 4118
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3330
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 0

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 825M NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

Essentials

Architecture Kepler 2.0 Fermi 2.0
Code name GK208 GF110
Launch date 27 January 2014 24 March 2011
Place in performance rating 788 790
Type Laptop Desktop
Launch price (MSRP) $699
Price now $184
Value for money (0-100) 30.41

Technical info

Boost clock speed 941 MHz
Core clock speed 850 MHz 1215 MHz
Floating-point performance 722.7 gflops 2x 1,244.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 40 nm
Pipelines 384 1024
Texture fill rate 30.11 GTexel / s 77.7 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 33 Watt 365 Watt
Transistor count 1300 Million 3,000 million
CUDA cores 1024
Maximum GPU temperature 97 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort, Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
Audio input for HDMI Internal
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 3.0 x8 PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size medium sized
Supplementary power connectors None Two 8-pin
Bus support 16x PCI-E 2.0
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Length 11" (280 mm) (27.9 cm)
SLI options Quad

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL 4.6 4.2

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 327.7 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
Memory clock speed 1800 MHz 1707 MHz
Memory type DDR3 GDDR5
Shared memory 0 0

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround